If you have set a time limit on your quiz, you can grant access for extra time. If the student hasn't taken the quiz, the extra time will be added to the student's initial attempt and additional attempts. Learn more aboutmanaging extra attempts.

If a student is currently taking the quiz while you are viewing the Moderate Quiz page, you can extend the quiz time as part of their current attempt. You can choose how many minutes to extend the quiz, and whether you want to add those minutes to the current time or the current (scheduled) end time.

Note:

A quiz must be published before you can moderate it. If you would like to manage the quiz moderation options before allowing students to access it, set the quiz Available from date to a future date and publish the quiz. Your students will not receive a notification for an unavailable quiz. Once you’ve made timing moderations, you can unpublish the quiz to save your moderations. You can then continue to edit the quiz prior to publishing it for your students to access.

The maximum time you can extend a current attempt is 1440 minutes (24 hours).

Open Quizzes

In Course Navigation, click the Quizzes link.

Open Quiz

Click the name of the quiz.

Moderate this Quiz

Click the Moderate This Quiz link.

Moderate Quiz

To moderate a quiz for one student, locate the student and click the Edit icon [1]. You can also filter students in your course by using the Search People field [2].

Moderate Quiz For Multiple Students

If you want to select multiple students, click the checkbox [1] next to each of their names. If you want to select all students, click the top checkbox [2]. Click Change Extensions for [#] Selected Students button [3].

Add Extra Time on Attempt

Type the number of extra minutes in the Extra Time on Every Attempt field. Extra time can only be added in full-minute increments.

If you are adding time for multiple students, the student extension box will apply the extra time for all selected students.

If the student hasn't taken the quiz, the extra time will be added to the student's initial attempt and additional attempts. Learn more about managing extra attempts.

Add Extra Time on Current Attempt

If a student is currently taking the quiz while you are viewing the Moderate Quiz page, you can extend the quiz time as part of their current attempt.

For current attempts, the remaining time will display next to a clock icon.

To extend the time on the quiz, click the clock icon.

Note: You can only extend the time for one current quiz attempt at a time.

Extend Quiz Time

Canvas will show you what time the quiz began, and what time it is scheduled to end.

In the minutes field [1], enter the number of extra minutes you want to give the student as part of their current attempt. The maximum time you can extend a current attempt is 1440 minutes (24 hours).

In the time drop-down menu [2], choose whether you want to add those minutes to the current time or the current (scheduled) end time.

If you want to end the quiz in relation to the current time, select the now option in the drop-down menu.

As an example, a student started a 20-minute quiz at 11:30 am; the quiz is set to end at 11:50 am. You moderated this quiz at 11:40, meaning that 10 minutes have gone by. However, you want to have the quiz end at 11:45. Since the current time is 11:40, you need to end the quiz in 5 minutes. Enter the number 5 in the minutes field, and select the now option in the drop-down menu.

If you want to end the quiz in relation to the current end time of the quiz, select the current end time option in the drop-down menu.

As an example, a student started a 20-minute quiz at 11:30 am; the quiz is set to end at 11:50 am. You moderated this quiz at 11:30, meaning it was nearly the same time that the student started the quiz, and you want to extend the quiz to end at noon. If the current end time is 11:50 am and you want to extend it by 10 minutes, enter the number 10 in the minutes field, and select the current end time option in the drop-down menu.

Extend Time

Click the Extend Time button.

Less Time Warning

Changing the time in relation to the Now option might mean that the student will have less time than was originally on the clock. In our example, the student still had 10 minutes remaining when the instructor moderated the quiz. Changing the time to 5 minutes means the student has 5 fewer minutes to take the quiz.

If you want to change this option, click the Cancel button. Otherwise, click the OK button.

Verify Extension

View student time extensions on the Moderate Quiz page.

Note: Once you finish moderating a quiz, you can unpublish the quiz and all moderations will be saved. You can then continue to edit the quiz prior to publishing it for your students to access.

Hello, If the quiz has a due date and an individual has been given extra time (resulting in running past the due date) using the moderate function prior to starting the quiz, does the due date automatically get changed for the individual so that they do not get marked late?

Even though it might sound like you’re setting up the quiz for one student, you’re leaving the Everyone assignment due dates and adding specific assignment due dates for this specific student - all on the same quiz.

I wanted to follow up to make sure that you saw Kona's response. If you have any further questions about this or anything else in Canvas, or if there's anything else we can help with, don't hesitate to reach out. In the meantime, if we don't hear from you, we'll consider your question answered, and in a few weeks we'll go ahead and archive your comment.

Yes I saw Kona's response, thank you. I was actually running a test at the time and found (in case anyone else is curious) that as Kona advised it marks them as late, but the due date can be altered after the test has completed. This then saved the students with extra time from worrying that they were marked late.

If you give a student extra time while they are taking the quiz, they will see a notification that they have been given extra time. If you give a student extra time before they begin taking the quiz, they will only see the timer counting down with the total time and won't be notified that extra time has been given. I hope this helps! Let us know if you have any other questions about this feature.

I wanted to follow up on this to make sure I answered your question. If not, please let us know so we can help get this figured out for you. Please don't hesitate to reach out with any other questions in the future. If we don't hear back from you on this, we'll consider it resolved and will archive these comments in a few weeks.

Your assumption is correct. The total time will reflect the initial time set for the quiz plus the extra time. The student will not be shown the original allotted time, even before taking the quiz. So if you have a 25 minute quiz and give a student 10 extra minutes on the quiz, they will see that they have 35 minutes to take the quiz.